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PAIL HOOK.

No. 606,469. Patented June 28,1898.

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NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

CHARLES W. MITCHELL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE TWISTED WIRE BOX STRAP COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PAIL HQOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ratent No. 696,469, dated. lune 28, 1898. Application filed November 24, 1897. Serial No. 659,723. (N0 m deL) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. MITCHELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pail-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvementsin pail-hooks; and it consists in a pail-hook formed of a blank of sheet metal having each end pointed and bent up in a special and novel manner to form fastening-points.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side view of the blank used in forming the pail-hook. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the finished pail-hook.

The blank from which the pail-hook is formed consists of a sheet-metal strip A, pointed at both ends and made by stamping or cutting. To form the fastening-points for the hook, the pointed ends a a of the strip are bent up, while at the same time the sides of thestrip at the base of the points in the places marked 1) in Fig. 1 are bent inwardly, forming creases or angles along the dotted lines I) 0 in Fig. 1, and the strips being bent along the lines o 0 in said figure. By this bending action the two parts or sides of each point a or a are folded together to form a point perpendicular to the strip A, while the parts of the strip indicated by the triangles 0 b c in Fig. 1 are turned over or folded down against the strip.

The pail-hook so made has its fasteningpoints and the parts of the strip immediately supporting same of double thickness, so as to give same greater strength and stifin'ess and enablin g the points to be driven into the wood without danger of bending them over, while 40 the intermediate portion of the strip is of only one thickness, so that it can be more readily bent over the corner of the box or pail to be fastened. This difference in stifiness between the ends and the middle of the hook is attained without any cutting or slotting of the middle portion of the strip, and thus without waste of material, while at the same time greater flexibility for a given amount of strength is attained than is secured by such slotting.

Having thus described my invention, the

following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A pail-hook consisting of a sheet-metal strip having pointed ends bent up and folded to form points of double thickness, substantially as set forth.

2. A pail-hook consisting of a sheet-metal strip, with pointed ends bent up and folded flat together to form points of double thickness, substantially as set forth.

3. A pail-hook consisting of a sheet-metal strip with pointed ends bent up and folded together from each side, and with the parts of the strip at the base of the points folded down against the strip, so as to form a double thickness at the point and the part of the strip immediately supporting the same, while leaving the intermediate portion of the strip of single thickness and therefore comparatively flexible.

O. W. MITCHELL.

Witnesses:

GRACE A. TAYLOR, PERCY THORPE. 

